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July 24, 1962
PROCESS FOR THE P
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INKING ROLLERS
NTAGLIO PRINTING
, 1959
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INVENTOR
ATTORNEYJ
United States Patent 0
3,045,591
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Patented July 24, 1962
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shaping of the inking roller assigned to the particular
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color.
The transfer rolls, which have ‘been made in this man
Willy Siiuberlich, Darmstadt-Eberstadt, Germany, assign
or to Maschinenfabrik Gcebel G.m.b.H., Darmstadt,
Germany
off in a transfer machine together with the inking rollers
PROCE§S FOR TIE PRODUCTION OF SHAPED
INKING ROLLER§ FOR STEEL ENGRAVING OR
INTAGLIO PRINTING
Filed Nov. 10, 1959, Ser. No. 852,142
Claims priority, application Germany Nov. 13, 1958
5 Claims. (Cl. 101-211)
ner and which serve as cutter rollers, are then rolled
which have an elastic or plastic cover, whereby the cover
of the inking rollers is cut in accordance with the pro?le
of the inking surfaces. The shaping of the inking rollers
can be facilitated after the cutting by providing these
10 rollers with an exterior elastic or plastic layer whose
interior surface is separated from a harder base layer by
For the production of multicolor prints by means of
an intermediate layer which makes it possible to remove
the exterior layer from the base layer at the cut surfaces
of one grooved cylinder for each color, a common
without any trouble.
grooved or plate cylinder for all colors; this grooved or 15
If, in the inking process, two color surfaces are to
plate cylinder being inked in the places intended for each
adjoin each other, it is often practical to engrave sepa~
color by a number of inking rollers that corresponds
rate limiting lines for each of the two colors and these
to the number of varying colors. The object of this
limiting lines consist of two lines running parallel at a
invention consists in processes for the production of the
small interval from each other, and thus each color then
surface of these inking rollers whose pro?le in the places
has its own limiting line. A similar eifect can be ob
provided for the inking is raised with respect to vthe other
tained by reworking the cutters located on the transfer
parts of the roller.
rolls somewhat, so that the cutters for both colors are
Various processes are known for the production of
shifted into the area of the other color by a ‘fraction of
such inking rollers for this purpose. One of these proc
a millimeter. This causes the edges of the two colors
esses consists in the following steps. The shaped or 25 to overlap a small amount, ‘but this overlapping must
grooved cylinder is inked in the places intended for ink
be so minute as to be invisible to the naked eye. In
ing and these inked places are transferred to the various
case of flaws between the individual colors, this over
inking rollers by successive bobbing. In this manner,
lapping prevents the development of an unprinted strip
the places on these inking rollers, which are higher than
along the limiting lines, which always has a disturbing
the rest of the surface, are inked and the depression of 30 effect.
the surface in places that do not give off ink is then
The invention will be further explained with the aid
accomplished by cutting the appropriate material away.
of the attached drawings in which:
This process is greatly dependent on skill and is dif?cult
FIGURE 1 is a plan view diagrammatically showing
to use when the mold contains a multitude of identical
an engraved plate,
multicolored units. This applies especially to stamps and 35
FIGURE 2 is an end view of a transfer roll,
similar printing products, where a very large number of
FIGURE 3 is a plan view of a plate showing deeper
steel engraving or intaglio printing, one can use, instead ~
identical units appears on one printing block.
In another process, one starts from the limiting lines
of the individual colors, which are drawn on a special
limit lines,
‘FIGURE 4 is an end view diagrammatically showing
a transfer roll,
?lm, which are then reproduced in accordance with the 40
FIGURE 5 is an end view of the roller of FIGURE 4
. showing a deeper cutting, and
number of units, and which are copied on a plate from
which the individual inking rollers are printed after the
FIGURE 6 is a diagrammatic view of a transfer ma
etching of the limiting lines. After this comparatively
chine for making the inking rollers.
complicated procedure, the individual inking rollers are
FIGURE 1 shows an engraved plate, such as is nor
cut in accordance with the printed limiting lines in the 45 mally used for the production of grooved or shaped cyl
inclers, especially in the steel engraving printing process
manner indicated above, but here again the result depends
to a great extent on skill.
This invention is based on simplifying the process of
making the inking rollers involved and the task of modi
fying the process so that the subjective factor will be
eliminated as much as possible. According to the inven
tion, this can be done by making a transfer roll from
the original gravure (engraved) plate and from this trans
fer roll, another plate is stamped deep enough so that
the stamping will reveal the position of the limiting lines
which must subsequently be engraved by hand. These
wherein the transfer rolls are made from these gravure
plates in the usual manner and these transfer rolls. roll
off on the steel engraved cylinder in a transfer machine.
As a result, the circumference of this cylinder receives
the picture or pictures corresponding to the engravings.
In the production of the rollers used for inking the
colors onto the steel engraving cylinder, one starts, ac
limiting lines are transferred in the form of raised lines
by stamping on one transfer roll for each color, after
cording to the invention, from the same engraved plate
as in FIGURE 1. It is assumed that the plate is engraved
only within the limiting lines designated by 1 and that the
picture contained in this engraving is to be printed in two
different colors. One of these colors, for instance red,
the plate has been hardened. Of these lines, only the
is to extend throughout the interior triangle whose sur
lines corresponding to a certain color remain on each
transfer roll while the other lines are removed by a me
face is designated by 2. Outside of this triangular surface
2, the picture is to be given another color, for example,
blue, whereby the outer edge of the blue color surface is
limited by the rectangle formed by lines 1.
A transfer roll is made from the engraved plate in the
chanical process, but if necessary, the remaining surfaces
of the transfer roll can also be cut deeper by means of
subsequent reworking. After the hardening of each
transfer roll, these remaining lines serve as cutters for the
5 usual manner and this transfer roll is used for impressing
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the steel engraving cylinder. In addition, the same trans
fer roll, which is indicated in FIGURE 2, is used to stamp
a plate which is shown diagrammatically in FIGURE 3
and which is essentially like the engraving plate of FIG
URE l. The stamping of the second plate as per FIG
be so ?xed inside the transfer machine that they will cor
respond to the transmission ratio between the steel engrav
ing cylinder and the inking roller. This makes it possible
to use the same index rim in both cases, so that the gradua
tion of the inking roller will exactly agree with the gradua
tion of the steel engraved cylinder onto which the color is
URE 3 need not be so deep as to correspond completely
to the engraved plate as in FIGURE 1. It su?ices to
make the engraving lines discernible to the extent that
one can determine with precision where the limiting lines
to be transferred.
Once the transfer roll has cut into the surface of roller
3 by rolling off against it, these cuts correspond exactly
of the two surfaces must be located. These limiting lines, 10 to the limiting lines of the color ‘which is to be applied to
which for the red color of course again form a triangle
the steel engraved cylinder by the rollar that has been cut
and which for the blue color form the same triangle at
the inside and a rectangle at the outside, are retraced by
hand and reworked in a manner rendering them as deep
as required for the rolling-off of a further transfer roll on
this plate. The limiting lines on this plate thus are deeper,
according to FIGURE 3, than the normal engraving lines
in this manner. After the cutting, it is therefore neces
sary to remove only those parts of the roller surface
which, depending on the position of the color in the pic
ture, are located outside or inside the cut limiting lines.
The removal of those parts of the roller surface which
are not to transmit any color can be facilitated consider
ably by having the roller coating or ‘cover consist of sev
eral layers. If the outer layer consists of an elastic or
and the difference here is about 0.1 mm. or a little more.
After the limiting lines have been given the required
depth, the second plate is hardened. From this hardened
plastic material and if it is separated from a harder layer
below it by means of an intermediate layer which makes
it possible to remove the outer layer from the base layer
without any trouble, then all the parts of the roller cir
cumference, which are located either outside or inside
plate, at least one transfer roll is to be stamped for each
color that is to be printed. The limiting lines engraved
into the plate appear at the circumference of the transfer
rolls as knife-like elevations. Since each of these transfer
the cut limiting lines, can very easily be removed. In
this manner, any shaping of the outside circumference of
rolls is intended only for the production of an inking
roller for a certain color, only those knife-like elevations
remain standing which are assigned to this particular
color. For example for the production of the inking
roller for the red color, only the triangular limiting lines
for the red color remain. The other limiting lines and
any possible markings of the engraving lines present on
the inking rollers required for color application can be
produced in a very short time.
II claim as my invention:
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1. A process for shaping and pro?ling inking rollers
for the application of several colors on limited partial‘
the transfer roll are removed and all surfaces inside and
surfaces of an intaglio or steel engraved grooved cylin- ‘
outside the mentioned limiting lines are placed deeper.
der of a printing machine, comprising the steps of mak
ing a transfer roll from an original engraved plate, pro
ducing a further plate from said transfer roll by stamp
The elevations on the circumference of the transfer roll
therefore are comparatively low after the stamping of
the plate according to FIGURE 3. This has been indi
cated diagrammatically in the transfer roll in FIGURE 4.
If the transfer roll is then reworked in the described man
ner by deeper cutting, as shown in FIGURE 5, the trans
ing so deep that the stamping will reveal the position of
the limiting lines, engraving said limiting lines by ‘hand,
hardening said further plate and then transferring the
limiting lines by stamping onto one transfer roll for
fer roll can be used as a cutter roller immediately after 40 each color in the form of raised lines, removing from the
hardening.
Another transfer roll is made for the blue color in the
same manner.
This transfer roll contains the same in
transfer rolls for the respective colors the limiting lines
not corresponding to the certain color assigned to each
of said transfer rolls while cutting deeper through re
working all surfaces inside and outside the remaining
ternal triangular limiting line, since the red color is not
supposed to overlap the blue color during printing. 45 limiting lines on said transfer rolls, hardening said trans
fer rolls, and using said transfer rolls as cutters for
Furthermore, the limiting lines corresponding to lines 1
shaping and pro?ling the inking rollers assigned to the
may remain on this transfer roll, in so far as the blue
respective colors.
color need be applied only within these limits. The outer
2. A process according to claim 1, in which the bound
limitation of the blue color is however not absolutely
required, because there are no engraving lines outside 50 aries of the two directly adjacent colors are shifted into
the area of the other color by engraving two parallel lines
the limiting lines ‘1, so that the color applied outside the
a slight distance from each other so that the edges of
limiting lines is wiped oh‘. the steel engraved cylinder and
both colors overlap by a fraction of a millimeter.
is therefore not printed. As indicated, it is advisable to
3. A process according to claim 1, in which the inking
have the colors overlap each other a little along their
limiting lines. For this reason, the outer limiting line 5 rollers ‘are provided with ‘an elastic coating and roll off
in a transfer machine together with the corresponding
of the red color must deviate slightly from the inner
transfer rolls, whereby the lines are cut by said transfer
limiting line of the blue color in a manner causing both
rolls according to the pro?le of the color surfaces.
colors to overlap slightly. This can be done either by
4. A process according to claim 1, in which the bound
engraving two closely parallel limiting lines into the plate,
in FIGURE 3, or by reworking the knife-like elevations 60 aries of the two directly adjacent colors‘ are shifted into
so that the cutters of one of the transfer rolls will be
worked off slightly toward the one side, while the cutters
of the other transfer roll are worked oif slightly toward
the other side.
The transfer rolls worked in this manner are ?rst hard
ened and then are placed in a transfer machine and this
has been indicated diagrammatically in FIGURE 6. The
roller, which is securely mounted in the machine and
which is to be shaped, is designated by 3 and the transfer
roll 4 is pressed against roller 3 and serves as a cutting
roller in the described manner. The cutting or stamping
of roller 3 by the cutters of roller 4 is accomplished by
having the two rollers roll off against each other in the
same manner as in the stamping of a steel engraved
the area of the other color by reworking the cutters so
that the edges of both colors overlap by a fraction of a
millimeter.
5. A process for shaping and pro?ling inking rollers
for the application of several colors on limited partial
surfaces of an intaglio or steel engraved cylinder of a
printing machine, comprising the steps of making a trans
fer roll from an original engraved plate, producing a
further plate from said transfer roll by stamping so deep
that the stamping will reveal the position of the limiting
lines, engraving :said limiting lines by hand, hardening said
further plate and then transferring the limiting lines by
stamping onto one transfer roll for each color in the
form of raised lines, removing from the transfer rolls
cylinder, The transmission ratios of the gear wheels can 75 for the respective colors the limiting lines not correspond
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ing to the certain color ‘assigned to each of said (trans
fer rolls, hardening said transfer rolls, and using said
iransfer rolls ‘as ‘cutters for shaping ‘and pro?ling the ink
ing rollers ‘assigned to the respective eolors.
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